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Re: read input from a widget [message #25730 is a reply to message #25729]

Thu, 12 July 2001 14:41

m.hadfield
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From: "Dominik Paul" <dpaul@ukl.uni-freiburg.de>
> we would like read a string from the user. But this is not possible in the
> runtime version (its possible under unix, ok, but unfortunately not under
> windows.
>
> So we are searching for a widget component to enter some text.
>
> Does somebody know such a component?

WIDGET_TEXT.

Do you know how to wrap a text widget in a routine/object to pass the
information you want back to the caller? If not I suggest you read a good
book on IDL programming...

http://www.dfanning.com/documents/books.html

If you want a quick & dirty solution you could use XDISPLAYFILE with a
temporary file.

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Mark Hadfield
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National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

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		Re: read input from a widget By: Herb Mullens on Fri, 13 July 2001 04:36
		Re: read input from a widget By: Kristine Hensel on Fri, 13 July 2001 01:28
		Re: read input from a widget By: Michael Asten on Thu, 12 July 2001 22:02
		Re: read input from a widget By: m.hadfield on Thu, 12 July 2001 14:41
		Re: read input from a widget By: R.Bauer on Thu, 12 July 2001 02:30
		Re: Re: read input from a widget By: m.hadfield on Sun, 15 July 2001 16:12

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